English
Etymology
From dis- + ambiguation.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪsæmˌbɪɡjuːˈeɪʃən/
- Hyphenation: dis‧am‧big‧u‧a‧tion
Noun
disambiguation (countable and uncountable, plural disambiguations)
- The removal of ambiguity.
The lexical disambiguation relies on looking ahead to identify possible senses.
1827, George Bentham, Outline of a New System of Logic: With a Critical Examination of Dr. Whately's "Elements of Logic, page 88:Disambiguation — where it is to fix the sense of an ambiguous term. This operation has been termed distinction by some Logicians, and erroneously reckoned as a species of division.
- (wiki jargon) A page on a wiki containing links to two or more topics with the same name.
Synonyms
Translations
removal of ambiguity
- Arabic: تَوْضِيح m (tawḍīḥ)
- Catalan: desambiguació (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 解疑 (zh) (jiěyí), 澄清 (zh) (chéngqīng)
- Czech: zjednoznačnění n, desambiguace (cs) f
- Dutch: desambiguatie
- Estonian: ühestamine
- Finnish: selventäminen (fi), täsmentäminen (fi), yksiselitteistäminen
- French: désambiguïsation (fr), homonymie (fr) f
- Georgian: გაურკვევლობის გადაწყვეტა (gaurḳvevlobis gadac̣q̇veṭa), გაურკვევლობის აღმოფხვრა (gaurḳvevlobis aɣmopxvra), ორაზროვნების გაუქმება (orazrovnebis gaukmeba), ორაზროვნების მოხსნა (orazrovnebis moxsna), ორაზროვნების დაზუსტება (orazrovnebis dazusṭeba), ორაზროვნების აღმოფხვრა (orazrovnebis aɣmopxvra), არაერთმნიშვნელობის აღმოფხვრა (araertmnišvnelobis aɣmopxvra)
- German: Disambiguation, Begriffsklärung
- Greek: αποσαφήνιση (el) f (aposafínisi)
- Hungarian: egyértelműsítés
- Italian: disambiguazione (it)
- Japanese: 曖昧さ回避 (ja) (aimaisa kaihi)
- Malay: nyahkekaburan
- Navajo: ałtsʼáʼáztiin
- Persian: ابهامزدایی (fa)
- Polish: ujednoznacznienie (pl) n
- Portuguese: desambiguação (pt), desambiguização
- Romanian: dezambiguizare
- Russian: дизамбигуа́ция (ru) f (dizambiguácija), различение (ru) f (različenije)
- Scots: disambiguation
- Spanish: desambiguación (es)
- Tagalog: pagpapalinaw (tl)
- Turkish: anlam ayrımı (tr)
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Further reading
Scots
Etymology
From English disambiguation.
Noun
disambiguation (plural disambiguations)
- Disambiguation.